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vSphere Standard Switches: Multiple TCP/IP stacks

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vSphere Standard Switches: Multiple TCP/IP stacks

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- [Rick] In this video, we'll learn how to use multiple TCP/IP stacks for different types of traffic. And so first, let's start by explaining what is A TCP/IP stack? Well, vSphere does support multiple TCP/IP stacks, and each TCP/IP stack is going to have different networking information, like, for example, a different default gateway or a different set of DNS servers. So for example, I could have a default gateway that's used when traffic is bound for some network. And so let's say you go into your computer and you're running the Windows operating system and you type in www.trainertests.com in your browser, and that traffic is bound for some address on the internet. And so that traffic needs to hit some device in your network that's capable of routing that traffic to the internet, and that's your default gateway. So anytime traffic is bound for a different IP range than your own computer is on, or a different layer two…

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